Amanda Cockrell is the author of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? a novel of the Hollywood blacklist; Coyote Weather, a novel of the Vietnam War era; and the young adult novel What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay.

Writing as Damion Hunter, she is the author of nine Roman novels: The Borderlands series, concluding with Birds of Prey; The Centurions series; The Legions of the Mist, and its sequel The Wall at the Edge of the World.

As Amanda Cockrell, she is also the author of The Deer Dancers and The Horse Catchers trilogies, set in the pre-Columbian Americas.

She holds a master’s degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University and before retiring, she was director of the university’s graduate program in children’s literature, and also taught creative writing and children’s literature in the university’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program and Creative Writing MFA program. She has received fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.